Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.

Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging.

The German director’s gorgeous, drifting study of a woman taken in by a stranger after a car crash has faint echos of Vertigo, but is more concerned with unnerving family dynamics than romance.

Coming back to the title of this post, in April we entered year 3 of delivering Screen Culture 2033, which will be a pivotal year for the BFI ’s digital transformation.

Before Lost in Translation there was Tokyo Pop, which – after decades in rights limbo – is now restored and ripe for reappraisal. We speak to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) about ...

A world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise Inside: The latest edition of Black Film Bulletin, Wes Anderson on The Phoenician Scheme, The career of Mai Zetterling, the legacy of the Film Society, arch ...

As indie gem Good One wanders into cinemas – right in the middle of National Walking Month – we hit the trail in search of 10 other films that capture the joy (and terror) of hiking.

Not much is said on the father-daughter hiking trip that takes place in India Donaldson’s slow-burn drama Good One, but it’s the silences that tell us most about the growing rift between parent and ...

The redesigned digital programme experience will be integrated with our third-party box office and ticket booking platform, and is underpinned by a new content management system, tailored to the ...

In 1951, the Swedish actress and soon-to-be groundbreaking director – who was born 100 years ago this May – wrote about the craft of film acting, and especially its relationship to stage acting.

The Final Destination franchise has had many unconvincing endings, but the latest resuscitation of the series is filled with gallows humour and fan-friendly callbacks, including the infamous logging ...

It made the Observer film critic laugh until her ribs ached, but its scenes of women fighting and men licking their lips caused trouble with the 1940s censors. Curator Josephine Botting digs into the ...